The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-09-23
MEALInY aYPslEs.

Nnmad< Who Have .Acqafrrd Considerabie
Property In This Country.
or Gyps;es known 10 be Gypsies. and
most of whom participate in the regui-
lar snnmer-time wandering life. thou
sands have acquired competence and
wealth. Heary Stanley. of St. Paul.
owns farm and city property amount
ing to over $4,000. The Cooper fam
iiy. of East SomerviIle. Boston. arr.
altogether worth $3.50. 600. Henry
J0wles owns seven acres of land and
several houses within the corporate linn
its Of Springfield. ILL.,. aud Richard
Jowles has nearly zen houses near
the rolling mills in that city. Joseph
Crabtree-whom Gypsies hint as being
q distant relative of a noted actress
owns city property in Liverpool. En-
gland, and one of the largest sale stables.
as well rs much other property. in
Washington. Uriah Wharton possesses
fully 5000. 600 worth of real estate in
and about New York City. Lewis But
.ar owns farms near Cedar Rapids, Ia.
and on Alum Greek, near Columbus,
O.. and is worth $4,000. William
Hall has q large and valuable planta-
ton near Holly Springs. Miss. John
Harrison owns a great many fine houses
in Washington. considerable property
mt Pittsburgh. and is counted worth
sI5O.O00. Hedry Wharton has S25. 900
W 'rlh of real estate and houses at
Springfield. H.. and Robert Smith. OF
the same place, is worth $4,000. Rich
ard Reynolds owns one of the fines,
farms in Seneca County, Ohio. near
near Swope's Corners. John Boswell
owns large brick block in Toronto.
Canada, and is one of the moneyed men
of that city. John Broadway, of Buffalo.
is said to be worth $4,000 in farm and
city property; and another of the Brosd-
ways owns as much more property in
Detroit and 81. GATHERINGS. Canada.
One of the Boswells owns sixteen acres
of valuable land adjoining the fair
grounds at New Albany. Ind. and con-
siderable city property; while Rebi
Boswell has a one-hundred-acre farm
and valuable tavern stand, two miles
from st. Thomas, Canada. John Kidd
owns large grist-mill, paying him AN
annual rental of $500. and a splen-
did farm at Oakland Station. near
Rock Island. Elias Brewer owns fifty
thousand dollars worth of city property
in Milwaukee; Spring Brewer owns a
hotel and other property at Flint. Mich.
and Fred Brewer has large stables and
much other property as Fort Scott.
Kan. William Stewart owns we'll
stocked ranch, sixteen miles from Aus
tin, Tex; and Job Stanley has several
thousand dollars of wood land in the
same locality. The Stanleys and Rey-
nolds, of Ohio, are very rich; and Henry
Stanley. of Evansville, Ind, owns farms
and town property; while Thomas.
Mark and Henry Jeffs, and the Pear
SOUS, with the Harrisons and Jowles. of
Dayton, o., own nearly all the finest
farming land for six miles north OF that
city. town property in Dayton, and to-
gether are worth certainly a half mill
lion dollars. This will appear incom-
prehensible to many, but make it as a
statement of fact that could fill every
column of this page with names. adj
dresses and property estimates of nearly
u thousand Gypsy heads of families in
this country whose combined wealth
will exceed $4,000, 900. - Edgar Il.
WIakenla1a. in Indianapolis Necs.